When you're 1 - 39, it's time for a change
change matched their most wins ever in school history by semifinal game 27-0. season a fluke or not?
Baltimore, Maryland. football program in 2003. “Sparrows Point 40 games, and that win was a forfeit! Contrast that the team finished the regular season 9-1 and then biggest difference is that as soon as I took over the program, we went to BFS.” As Webber discovered, photo:
Prior to 2003, the football team at Sparrows Point High School had a 1-39 record, and that win wasa forfeit! This year the team finished the regular season 9-1.
Pictured are Billy Blevins (#34), David Brady (#8), and Evan Pritchett. the change required a huge learning curve for his That attitude adjustment was reflected in the athletes.
“T didn’t have any weightroom records for the weightroom. “At first it was hard to get kids in the power clean, because most of the players didn’t know weightroom, but it’s getting easier and easier, and the what a power clean was!” says Webber. “And even weightroom is pretty full in the summer, though they were doing squats, I know they weren’t Webber. “Success breeds success.” going parallel because I had a lot of kids complaining my first year about having to go down so low.”
Besides lifting, the key was getting the players Webber firmly believes that high school athletes. sold on the attitude they could win; but that’s nothing should play multiple sports. “I have no one-sport new to Webber. At his previous high school the team athletes on this football team; and if we did, the other progressed from winning only three games in two sports would just die,” years to a 5-5 season, followed by three winning I1 starters are three-sport athletes, and they find time to get into the weightroom.”
Helping run things smoothly in the strength department is Scott Lenhart, the weight training coordinator, and an enthusiastic Point, the team made a modest improvement by group of weightroom assistants who coach other going 3-6, but Webber says they were competitive in sports. “I have an assistant who is a wrestling coach, just about every game. “There were only a couple of T have an assistant who is an indoor track coach and I games that we got blown out, but after that the program really took off. This year our kids dedicated Webber.
“They know the value of in-season training, David Brady so when let’s say w restling practice is the weightroom.” organization. “What I did was institute a football players in the class. varsity and 37 JV, being able to have some their workouts.”
Webber designed the weig htroom to follow the BFS program, so his equ ipment includes three squa t Stains, and one dea dlift station. This ena bles him like more girls to get mor girls who train are in class, and they work hard and sce the benefits; but most of the girls want to lift by themselves instead of havi ng guys in the weightroom. Next year we'll try to institute a weight-training-for-fe which will gradually help them become more willing to tr shirts ~ “They knock them selves out for T-shirts” for reaching certain leve ls in their four core lifts: pow er clean, parallel encourage bench pres s monkeys who just w ant their forty.
from the hips, so we're going to make certain our players do all the core lifts.” Webber’s program has paid off in the numbers. Last year he had only one football player bench press 250, but this year he has six. He’s season add at least 50 pounds to their squat. “The squat is the lift that has gone up the most, partly because kids didn’t like it and didn’t do it before we took over.” As for team speed results, Webber believes emphasis on the squat and ladder drills have helped tremendously, with the average player this off-season dropping .2 seconds off their 40.
Webber, “I truly believe that the parallel squat is the speed lift.”
Asked if he ever considered copying college district that are doing things | are a little too d, but they happen to believe you have to be complicated to be successful. I don’t think that way at all. is what J know and in fact it’s all I've ever done. The high schoo} | attended followed BES, coach at Fort Hill, Maryland, which uses BFS and has a dominant program.” the power he developed in the weightroom to break a tackle.
“best-kept secret in Baltimore County,” school was established in 1908 and is located on a stadium, First Mariner Field at Sparrows Point. “The peninsula that flows into Chesapeake Bay. working relationship among the staff is what keeps beautiful place to go to school because we're me here and is what keeps this school going strong. basically surrounded by water.” about this place is a lot of kids’ fathers and mothers went to helpful and worked with me to make my weight-training-for- Sparrows Point; their grandmothers and grandfathers went to Sparrows athletes class happen.”
Asked what his basic philosophy of success is with eye as he replies, “It’s simple. seem to leave Sparrows Point, there’s a good chance that your mother or father was taught by the same teacher. That’s really cool!”
School District, there are 24 schools. Webber considers the area’s uncrowded campuses Kids want to be loved. On the love them all the time, and | have no problem saying that. If your of pride. believe can lead to behavior problems.” At Sparrows Point, says Webber, students have the benefit of being a part of a big school system but yet having Sparrows Point football team, a season that brought small class sizes. Such a system is effective, as 60 schools.” was indeed a miracle season for the percent of graduates go on to college. In fact, thanks with it a deep sense of pride.
Although it will be difÏcult for the 2005 team to repeat this year’s to a dual enrollment program, seniors can get a head accomplishments because they will be losing 18 start by earning up to 15 college credits before they seniors to graduation, Coach Eric Webber says the JV graduate. team is hungry and he is confident they will work hard. “They see what the benefits of hard work administration that has helped him and his athletes achieve their goals, such as building a new athletic reap those benefits also.” 53”
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From BFS Magazine — January/February 2005. Part of the BFS Magazine Archive (1980–2014).
